Although the primary outcome came as no surprise, it’s expected to send a clear message to President Biden’s Democrat challengers and critics. President Joe Biden secured a decisive victory on Saturday in the first Democratic primary in South Carolina, solidifying his position as the leading candidate to represent his party in the upcoming presidential race.
Washington — President Biden will win South Carolina’s 2024 Democratic primary election Saturday, CBS News projects, defeating two long-shot candidates. The state that revived his struggling 2020 campaign is the first official Democratic nominating contest of 2024, after the Democratic National Committee moved the primary ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire, disregarding a longstanding New Hampshire law
The Associated Press on Saturday projected that President Biden would win South Carolina's 2024 Democratic presidential primary, with the call made soon after the polls closed in the Palmetto State
The postponement of President Trump’s Jan. 6 trial in Washington sets up his “hush money” case in New York as the first criminal trial of a former US president. A judge’s recent decision to postpone the trial date for former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington means that his next scheduled trial in
U.S. and U.K. military forces late Saturday night launched joint airstrikes on Iranian-backed Houthi targets in Yemen, two U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News. The airstrikes come one day after the U.S. launched retaliatory airstrikes on more than 85 targets of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliated militias in Syria and Iraq in
Meanwhile the Senate is due to vote on its border-Ukraine-Israel package next week. Legislation to provide $17.6 billion in emergency funding for Israel will be brought to the House floor sometime next week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on Feb. 3. Specifically, the bill (pdf) would authorize funds to replenish Israel’s missile and rocket
Biden walks tightrope in Middle East Biden walks tightrope in Middle East 02:03 Washington — The House plans to vote next week on a standalone Israel aid bill next week Speaker Mike Johnson said in a letter to colleagues on Saturday, in which he describes a new plan to vote on Israel foreign aid next week.